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Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar

Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar

Buckle up for a wild ride with this cheeky and charming rom-com where one girl’s quest across India to seal her first kiss turns into finding first love in the...

The Midnight Taxi

The Midnight Taxi

When the last fare of the night turns up dead in her backseat, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver works off the clock to clear her name in this mystery...

The Last of Earth

The Last of Earth

A stunning historical novel set in nineteenth-century Tibet that follows two outsiders—an Indian schoolteacher spying for the British Empire and an English “lady” explorer—as they venture into a forbidden kingdom....

Homeland Elegies

Homeland Elegies

Blending fact and fiction, Homeland Elegies follows an immigrant father and his son as they search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other. A deeply personal work about identity...

Gajarah

Gajarah

With stunning lyricism, Gajarah tells the story of a fearless woman torn between two worlds—Pakistan and Canada—whose life is upended by sexual violence. Emahn is big haired, mischievous, and larger...

Days of Love and Rage

Days of Love and Rage

From Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal, a mesmerizing and powerful account of six Syrians fighting for a better world, in the tradition of classic works by Philip...

The Radiance

The Radiance

A mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and investigation in Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar’s most daring work yet — a visionary novel of...

The True Happiness Company

The True Happiness Company

In this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American woman’s dreams of being a well-adjusted college student get wildly derailed when her struggles with mental health land...

The Butcher of the Forest

The Butcher of the Forest

A world-weary woman races against the clock to survive a deadly forest in this dark, otherworldly fairytale from Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Premee Mohamed. At the northern edge...

The Siege of Burning Grass

The Siege of Burning Grass

A stunning meditation on war, nationalism, violence and courage by a rising star of the genre. The Empires of Varkal and Med’ariz have always been at war. Alefret, the founder...

An Ember in Ashes, Book 1

An Ember in Ashes, Book 1

Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to...

A Torch Against the Night, Book 2

A Torch Against the Night, Book 2

Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake...

The City Inside

The City Inside

The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at...

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

From international bestseller Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport is an exuberant new sci-fi adventure. Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking,...

The Oleander Sword, Book 2

The Oleander Sword, Book 2

The Oleander Sword continues Tasha Suri’s acclaimed Burning Kingdoms trilogy, in which a powerful priestess and a vengeful princess will change the fate of an empire. The prophecy of the...

The Widows of Malabar Hill, Book 1

The Widows of Malabar Hill, Book 1

1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward...

The Satapur Moonstone, Book 2

The Satapur Moonstone, Book 2

The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill. India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state...

The Bombay Prince, Book 3

The Bombay Prince, Book 3

Bombay’s first female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay’s streets erupt in riots to protest British...

The Mistress of Bhatia House, Book 4

The Mistress of Bhatia House, Book 4

Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in...

The Isle in the Silver Sea

The Isle in the Silver Sea

A heart-shattering standalone romantasy of sapphic longing, medieval folklore and a love that spans the centuries, from World Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri. In an England fuelled by stories, the...

The Lotus Empire, Book 3

The Lotus Empire, Book 3

This sweeping epic fantasy brings the acclaimed Burning Kingdoms trilogy to a heart–stopping close, as an ancient magic returns to Ahiranya and threatens its very foundations, Empress Malini and priestess...

The Jasmine Throne, Book 1

The Jasmine Throne, Book 1

A ruthless princess and powerful priestess come together to write the fate of an empire in this epic fantasy written by Tasha Suri. Exiled by her despotic brother, princess Malini...

The Widows of Malabar Hill, Book 1

The Star from Calcutta, Book 5

A movie censor murdered, a leading lady vanished—the glamour, romance, and intrigue of the beginnings of Bollywood come to vivid life in the thrilling new installment of the Perveen Mistry...

Rosarita

Rosarita

From “world-class writer” (The Washington Post) and three-time Booker finalist Anita Desai, an exquisitely written stunning exploration of love, place, memory, history, and the secrets between a mother and her...

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—into their house in rural Wyoming where they’ll all live together....

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Mother Mary Comes to Me

A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces her complex relationship with her mother,...

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity. When Sonia and...

Curry Means More

Curry Means More

A story about a girl and her mom introducing a school friend to curry—and discovering all the things that curry means to them as they learn to make it together....

Eid for Nylah

Eid for Nylah

A heartwarming tale of a community preparing for and celebrating Eid al-Fitr, seen through the eyes of a curious neighborhood cat! Nylah the cat is making her usual visits to...

A Guardian and a Thief

A Guardian and a Thief

In a near-future Kolkata, Ma, her two-year-old daughter, and her elderly father are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma’s husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After...

Money for Couples: No More Stress. No More Fights. Just a 10-Step Plan to Create Your Rich Life Together

Money for Couples: No More Stress. No More Fights. Just a 10-Step Plan to Create Your Rich Life Together

This New York Times bestselling book by the author of I Will Teach You to Be Rich shows how to navigate finances while in a relationship. Personal finance juggernaut Ramit...

The Vibrant Years

The Vibrant Years

Living on their own terms means being there for one another. When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desai inherits a million dollars, she’s astounded―and horrified. The windfall threatens to expose a shameful mistake...

107 Days

107 Days

For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, former Vice President Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American...

Bilal Cooks Daal

Bilal Cooks Daal

Six-year-old Bilal introduces his friends to his favorite dish—daal!—in this charming picture book that showcases the value of patience, teamwork, community, and sharing. Six-year-old Bilal is excited to help his...

The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker

A society matchmaker realizes she’s in danger when her clients’ weddings are sabotaged in increasingly disturbing ways—an utterly original mystery from New York Times bestselling author Aisha Saeed. Business has...

Move: Where People Are Going for a Better Future

Move: Where People Are Going for a Better Future

In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility—the ever-constant search for resources and stability. Seismic global events—wars and genocides,...

Girls That Invest

Girls That Invest

Your step-by-step guide to financial independence―from the creator of the #1 investing education podcast, Girls That Invest. Ever wondered how on earth the stock market works, but felt too intimidated...

Circa: A Novel

Circa: A Novel

A stunning, gut-punch of a novel that follows a young Indian American woman who, in the wake of tragedy, must navigate her family’s expectations as she grapples with a complicated...

Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom, Book 1

Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom, Book 1

This action-packed fantasy-adventure sees a girl’s drawings of Indian mythology spring to vivid life—including the evil god who seeks to enter the real world and destroy it. Kiki Kallira has...

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family—and a new love—changes the course of her life. As one of the few...

The Magnificent Ruins

The Magnificent Ruins

In this “rare feast” of a novel, a young Indian American book editor inherits her estranged family’s ancestral home–and their long-buried secrets (Rachel Lyon, author of Self-Portrait With Boy). It...

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

A magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The...

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

In The Song of the Cell, Siddhartha Mukherjee “blends cutting-edge research, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, and gorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like a literary page-turner” (Oprah Daily)....

The Gene: An Intimate History

The Gene: An Intimate History

A fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle).

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has...

When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth...

The Lucky Ones

The Lucky Ones

A moving memoir by a survivor of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India that delicately weaves political and family histories in a tribute to her country’s unique Islamic heritage. In 2002,...

Knife

Knife

From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. On the...

Mirror Made of Rain

Mirror Made of Rain

Despite an embarrassing, alcoholic mother, Noomi Wadia is loathe to change her own hard-partying ways simply because it’s what’s expected in Kamalpur high society. As her peers begin to marry...

I’m A Fan

I’m A Fan

I stalk a woman on the internet who is sleeping with the same man as I am. Sheena Patel’s incandescent first novel begins with the unnamed narrator describing her involvement...

This Is Salvaged

This Is Salvaged

Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self...

Sucker Punch

Sucker Punch

The long-awaited follow-up from one of the most original and hilarious voices writing today. Scaachi Koul’s first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the...

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

A collection of essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada, “a land of ice and casual racism,” by the cultural observer, Scaachi Koul. In One Day...

Gold Diggers

Gold Diggers

How far would you go for a piece of the American dream? A magical realist coming-of-age story, Gold Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving...

Goddess Complex

Goddess Complex

Sanjana Satyanandais trying to recover her life. It’s been a year since she walked out on her husband, a struggling actor named Killian, at a commune in India, after a...

Internment

Internment

Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. With the...

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a...

Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

Jay Shetty grew up in a family where you could become one of three things—a doctor, a lawyer, or a failure. His family was convinced he had chosen option three:...

8 Rules of Love: How to Find it, Keep it, and Let it Go

8 Rules of Love: How to Find it, Keep it, and Let it Go

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on ancient wisdom and new science. Nobody...

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don’t exist? Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to be themself. As...

India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of A Nation’s Remaking

India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of A Nation’s Remaking

Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane from America prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, “We’re all trying to go that...

Island Witch

Island Witch

Set in 19th century Sri Lanka and inspired by local folklore, the daughter of a traditional demon-priest—relentlessly bullied by peers and accused of witchcraft herself—tries to solve the mysterious attacks...

Counting Down with You

Counting Down with You

In this sparkling and romantic YA debut by Tashie Bhuiyan, a reserved Bangladeshi-American teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date...

My Big, Fat Desi Wedding

My Big, Fat Desi Wedding

Desi Wedding Must-Haves: Drama. Food. Fashion. More Drama. More food. And, of course, nosy aunties and uncles. A family curse that turns spoken prophecy into truth. A world where your...

A Show for Two

A Show for Two

New from Tashie Bhuiyan, the author of Counting Down with You, comes a sparkling YA romance about an aspiring screenwriter who falls for the indie film star who goes undercover...

Why Not Me?

Why Not Me?

From the author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and creator of The Mindy Project and Never Have I Ever comes a hilarious collection of essays about her ongoing...

Loot

Loot

A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero’s quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that...

Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

Inspired by her popular TED Talk, the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code urges women to embrace imperfection and live a bolder, more authentic life. “A timely message for...

Love, Hate, & Other Filters

Love, Hate, & Other Filters

In this unforgettable debut novel by Samira Ahmed, an Indian-American Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape....

Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds, Volume 1

Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds, Volume 1

From New York Times and indie bestselling author Samira Ahmed comes a thrilling and magical adventure intertwining Islamic legend and history, perfect for fans of Aru Shah and the Land...

Amira & Hamza: The Quest for the Ring of Power, Volume 2

Amira & Hamza: The Quest for the Ring of Power, Volume 2

Amira and Hamza are back in this epic sequel by Samira Ahmed, which takes readers on a thrilling magical adventure as the siblings face their most terrifying and formidable opponent...

Hollow Fires

Hollow Fires

This powerful, gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed shows the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthing hidden truths—and the undeniable power of hope....

Mad, Bad, & Dangerous to Know

Mad, Bad, & Dangerous to Know

Discover New York Times bestseller Samira Ahmed’s romantic, sweeping adventure through the streets of Paris told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, continents, and the lives of two young Muslim...

The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas

The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas

Imagine that a terrorist tried to kill you. If you could face him again, on your terms, what would you do? The True American by Anand Giridharadas tells the story...

You’re Invited

You’re Invited

What could be worse than your ex-boyfriend marrying your childhood best friend? Getting accused of her murder… From Amanda Jayatissa, the award-winning author of My Sweet Girl, comes a dangerously...

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they...

Age of Vice

Age of Vice

New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It’s a rich man’s car, but when the dust...

The Death of Vivek Oji

The Death of Vivek Oji

What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to...

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times bestselling author, “a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self” (Esquire) In...

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a...

The Boyfriend Wish

The Boyfriend Wish

A charming romantic comedy about a South Indian American teen girl who makes a wish upon a flower for her perfect boyfriend…and then a new boy moves in right next...

Stay With My Heart

Stay With My Heart

From Tashie Bhuiyan, the author of Counting Down with You and A Show for Two comes a new YA contemporary about a girl who accidentally sabotages an up-and-coming local band...

If They Come for Us: Poems

If They Come for Us: Poems

an aunt teaches me how to tell an edible flower from a poisonous one. just in case, I hear her say, just in case. From a co-creator of the Emmy-nominated...

The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown

The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown

A hilarious and moving memoir in essays about love and allyship, told through one Asian and Black interracial relationship. When Nina Sharma meets Quincy while hitching a ride to a...

When We Were Sisters

When We Were Sisters

In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, the acclaimed author of If They Come for Us traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die,...

Brown Girl Chromatography

Brown Girl Chromatography

  • Poetry
  • Publication Year: 2022

Anuradha Bhowmik’s life as a Bangladeshi-born American girl growing up as a first-generation immigrant in the United States gives shape to this debut collection. Brown Girl Chromatography interrogates issues of...

How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions

How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions

From the author of This Is One Way to Dance, linked genre-queer short stories braided with images and ephemera explore the experiences of growing up and living as a diasporic...

Rakesfall

Rakesfall

Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from here until the ends of time, from the author of The Saint of Bright Doors. Some...

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